On May 15th, 1972 Arthur Bremer pumped five bullets into Alabama Governor George Wallace in Laurel, Maryland. That year Wallace, the fiery segregationist Alabama governor, had softened his rhetoric and entered the 1972 presidential race as a Democratic hopeful. His campaign was moving along strongly. He carried every county in the Florida primary and was campaigning in Maryland when he was shot. The next day Wallace won the Maryland and Michigan primaries but Bremer ended Wallace’s presidential aspirations that year. Wallace was left paralyzed and served as Alabama’s governor until 1979. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years, served 35 and was released on November 9, 2007. In his diary Bremer revealed that he shot Wallace not from any political reasons but for a desire for fame. Wallace later wrote a letter to Bremer forgiving him. Wallace was reelected governor of Alabama in 1983 through large support of Alabama’s Black voters. Wallace died in 1998. Arthur Bremer got the fame he was looking for. The deranged Travis Bickle character (played by Robert Deniro) in the 1976 movie “Taxi Driver” was based on Arthur Bremer. In 1981 John Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan in an attempt to impress that movie’s co-star Jody Foster. Below are three Youtube clips that will tie it all together for you. Two of the clips contain images of violence.